The young cellist Julia Hagen combines technical virtuosity with the highest artistic standards and has won acclaim both as an orchestral soloist and in diverse chamber-music groups with prominent co-performers.
As the winner of the Credit Suisse Young Artist Award 2024 she will perform with the Vienna Philharmonic under Christian Thielemann at the Lucerne Festival. Other highlights of 2023/24 include a European tour with the Dresden Philharmonic under Krzysztof Urbański, and performances with the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Colombia under Jonathan Bloxham, the Orquesta Nacional de España under Giovanni Antonini, the Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra under Julian Rachlin and the Kammerakademie Potsdam under Paul McCreesh. She returns to perform with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra under Andrés Orozco-Estrada and makes her debut with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France under Mirga Gražinytė-Tyle, with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra under their chief conductor designate Petr Popelka and with the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra under Dennis Russell Davies at the Grafenegg Festival.
Among her diverse activities the most noteworthy include trio concerts with Igor Levit and Renaud Capuçon at London’s Wigmore Hall, the Vienna Musikverein and the Schwarzenberg Schubertiade, and Gubaidulina’s Sonnengesang, which she performed with the Los Angeles Master Chorale at the 2023 Salzburg Festival. In 2019 Julia Hagen, together with her long-term chamber music partner, pianist Annika Treutler, released her first album for Hänssler Classic, featuring works by Brahms.
Julia Hagen comes from Salzburg and studied at the Mozarteum University there with Enrico Bronzi, at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna with Reinhard Latzko and Heinrich Schiff, and with Jens Peter Maintz at the Berlin University of the Arts. Until 2022 she held a scholarship at the prestigious Kronberg Academy with Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt.
She has won prizes at the international cello competition in Liezen and at the Mazzacurati Competition, and received the HBW-Kulturpreis and the Prix Jean-Nicolas Firmenich at the Verbier Festival.
Julia Hagen plays a 1684 cello by Francesco Ruggieri from Cremona, which has been made available to her by a private lender.
